Wright v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1953
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Holden v. Spier · Sawin v. Osborn · Wilson v. Channell · Banner v. Welch · Keith v. Guthrie
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court shall have full power to make any order not inconsistent with the provisions of this article that may be necessary to make a just and equitable partition between the parties, and to secure their respective interests.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Young · Fry v. Dewees““As a general rule, a court in decreeing partition has power to adjust the equitable rights of all the parties interested in the estate, so far as they relate to and grow out of the relation of the parties to the common property.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Young
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.